Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II

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Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection. Webster gives the readers a worked example of 'theological theology', that is, Christian theology which takes its rise in the Christian confession of the gospel which seeks to hear, celebrate and commend. This classic volume from one of the leading theologians in the world remains an important contribution to the field of systematic theology. For this Cornerstones edition Webster has written a new preface in which he sets the work against the current debate and his own current theology. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Theology 1. Theological Theology 2. On the Clarity of Holy Scripture I II III IV V VI 3. Confession and Confessions I II III IV V Dogmatics 4. The Immensity and Ubiquity of God I II III IV 5. The Holiness and Love of God I II 6. Prolegomena to Christology: Four Theses I II III IV V Church and Christian Life 7. On Evangelical Ecclesiology I The Church and the Perfection of God II ‘The Visible Attests the Invisible’ III In place of a conclusion 8. Hope I II III IV V 9. Evangelical Freedom I II III IV Index of Biblical References Index of Subjects Index of Authors